2nd International Conference on Internet Science
27-29 MAY, 2015 - Flagey, Brussels
Agenda
WEDNESDAY MAY 27
9:30
Welcome coffee
10:00
Opening session
Open Day introduction – Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
10:20
Highlights on Internet Science
Chair: Anna Satsiou, Senior Researcher in the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Center for Research and Technology
Hellas, Greece
This session will present the Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS) main achievements about the understanding of
Internet networks and their co-evolution with society, followed by the presentation of projects proposals of common interest in
the field of Internet Science.
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11:30
Real time analysis and visualization of controversies around Wikipedia articles, EINS Open Call
Project CONTROPEDIA - Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Scientific Director, Social Media Research Group, Barcelona Media,
Spain
Interdisciplinary explorations of self-organisation in practice, EINS Open Call Project COMPARE - Panayotis
Antoniadis, Senior Researcher, Communication Systems Group ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities, EINS Open Call Project CPiOSC - Wifak
Gueddana, Research Associate, Information Systems and Innovation Group, London School of Economics, United
Kingdom
Virtual Communities, EINS JRA6 - Chris Marsden, Professor of Internet & Media Law, University of Sussex, United
Kingdom
Emergence Theories and Design Methodologies, EINS JRA2 - Clare Hooper, Research Engineer, IT Innovation
Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
From Smart Cities to Engaged Citizens, 3rd EINS Summer School - Anna Satsiou, Senior Researcher in the
Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Introduction to Round Tables
Chair: Hugo Vivier, Unit Manager, Emerging Technologies & Media, Sigma Orionis, France
During this session, round tables chairs will present the main issues of the discussions held in their respective round table in
order for participants to decide the round table they will join.
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Engaging citizens in the smart city project through DIY networking - Panayotis Antoniadis
Global Internet Governance Policy Architecture: Case studies and interdisciplinary research challenges - Chris
Marsden
Internet Research Ethics: Striking a balance between conflicting interests - Luce Jacovella, Bendert
Zevenbergen
12:30
Buffet lunch
14:00
Parallel Round Tables (part 1)
Join a round table and take part in an open and interactive discussion session with topic experts. The three topics are detailed
below.
Engaging Citizens in the smart city
project
Panayotis Antoniadis (chair), Senior
Researcher, Communication Systems
Global Internet Governance Policy
Architecture: Case studies and
interdisciplinary research
challenges
Chris Marsden (chair), Professor of
Internet & Media Law, University of
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Internet Research Ethic
Luce Jacovella (chair), Research
Coordinator at Centre for Commercial
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Group ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Ileana
Apostol, ETH Zurich and NetHood,
Switzerland, Katalin Hausel,
unmonastery, Switzerland
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Parallel Round Tables (part 2)
Sussex, United Kingdom, Alison
Powell, Assistant Professor in Media
and Communication, London School
of economics and Political Science,
United Kingdom, Meryem Marzouki,
Senior Researcher CNRS, France,
Ziga Turk, Professor, University of
Ljubjana, Slovenia, Kave Salamatian,
Professor of Computer Science,
University of Savoie, France,
Jonathan Cave, Senior lecturer in the
Department of Economics, University
of Warwick, United Kingdom,
Bendert Zevenbergen, Doctor of
Philosophy student and Research
Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute,
United Kingdom
Law Studies, Queen Mary University of
London, United Kingdom. Bendert
Zevenbergen (chair), Doctor of
Philosophy student and Research
Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute,
United Kingdom
One more hour to discuss the 3 main topics of this Open Day!
17:00
Round Tables Wrap up
Chair: Athena Vakali, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Each of the three round table chairs will present the main insights discussed in their session to all the audience.
18:30
Networking buffet dinner
THURSDAY MAY 28 9:30
Doors Opening
10:00
Opening
Programme Introduction – Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
10:10
Keynote speeches
Chair: Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
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Security and Intelligence Activities: Shift from Espionage to Surveillance - Motohiro Tsuchiya, Global Security
Research Institute (G-SEC), Keio University, Japan
Technology innovation and its legal implications - Andrea M. Matwyshyn, Legal Studies and Business Ethics
Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States
11:10
Coffee Break
11:40
Session I – Internet Science in Reflection
Chair: Jonathan Cave, Senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
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A Disciplinary Analysis of Internet Science - Clare J. Hooper, Bruna Neves and Georgeta Bordea
Analysing an academic field through the lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community
- Almila Akdag Salah, Andrea Scharnhorst and Sally Wyatt
EINS Evidence Base: A Semantic Cataloguing for Internet Experimentation and Measurement - Xin
Wang, Thanassis Tiropanis, Thanasis Papaioannou and Federico Morando
Living with Listening Services: Privacy and Control in IoT - Donald McMillan and Antoine Loriette
13:00
Buffet lunch
14:00
Session II – Internet Science and Societal Innovation
Chair: Laura Sartori, Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
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Privacy and empowerment in connective media - Jo Pierson
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Engaging with Charities On Social Media: Comparing interaction on Facebook and Twitter - Christopher
Phethean, Thanassis Tiropanis, Lisa Harris
Empowering female-owned SMEs with ICT in selected Arab countries and Brazil - Mona Badran
#CELEBGATE: Methodological approaches to the 2014 celebrity photo hacks - Rebecca Fallon
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15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Keynote speeches
Chair: Athena Vakali, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Towards a new social compact for internet freedom- Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament for
the Dutch Democratic Party, Netherlands
Leveraging Internet/Web/Network Science(s) to address Grand Societal Challenges - Noshir Contractor,
Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group, Northwestern University, United States
Internet Science driving the development of Collective Awareness Platforms
Fabrizio Sestini, EINS scientific officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission
17:40
Day 1 closing
Closing remarks - Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
18:00
Networking cocktail
FRIDAY MAY 29
9:30
Doors opening
10:00
Keynote speeches
Chair: Anna Satsiou, Senior Researcher in the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Center for Research and Technology
Hellas
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Who is a Data Controller? - Marcelo Thompson, Law and Technology Centre at the Faculty of Law, The University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Is the Internet the Internet? - Christian de Larrinaga, Founder of the Internet Society, United Kingdom
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Session III – Internet and Innovation
Chair: Franco Bagnoli, Researcher, University of Florence, Italy
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Communication Forms and Digital Technologies in the Process of Collaborative Writing - Kaja Scheliga
Ethics of personalized information filtering - Ansgar Koene, Elvira Perez, Christopher James Carter, Ramona
Statache, Svenja Adolphs, Claire O'Malley, Tom Rodden and Derek McAuley
IAA: Incentive-based Anonymous Authentication Scheme in Smart Grids - Zhiyuan Sui, Ammar
Alyousef and Hermann de Meer
Mediated community from an intergroup perspective: A literature review - Vilma Lehtinen, Eeva Raita, Mikael
Wahlström, Peter Peltonen and Airi Lampinen
13:00
Buffet lunch
14:00
Emergent Interdisciplinary areas and the contribution of Internet Science (Panel discussion)
Chair: Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
This session is a panel discussion about the future of Internet Science and its distinct contribution. It is also about the expected
contribution of Internet Science in the next 5 years and in Horizon 2020 as well as about synergies with Network Science, Data
Science and Web Science.
Panelists:
Fabrizio Sestini, EINS scientific officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Chris Marsden, Professor of Internet & Media Law, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Jonathan Cave, Senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Kave Salamatian, Professor of Computer Science, University of Savoie, France
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Laura Sartori, Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
14:15
Best Student Paper Award
Chair: Laura Sartori, Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
During this session, the best selected paper (co-)written by a student will be rewarded with a 500€ prize.
15:00
Closing remarks
Chair: Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
15:30
Coffee break & open networking
ROUNT TABLES PRESENTATION
Engaging citizens in the smart city project through DIY networking
In this roundtable, we will explore a variety of methods from the fields of urban studies, urban interaction design, engineering, and
computer science for empowering citizens to build understandings of the fast evolving hybrid space of their cities and collaborate to
shape it according to their own values and objectives. We will focus on a special technology, Do-It-Yourself networking, which allows
citizens to build their own local networks for supporting local interactions, outside the public Internet, using low-cost off-the-shelf
hardware and wireless technologies. Such networks offer a rich set of special characteristics, such as the ownership and control of the
whole design process; the de facto physical proximity of those connected without the need for disclosing private location information
to third parties; the easy and inclusive access through the use of a local captive portal launched automatically and by default when one
joins the network; the option for anonymous interactions; and the materiality of the network itself. These characteristics can be
exploited by designers to build locally owned and customized ICTs, which can encourage participation, facilitate information sharing,
and promote conviviality.
In his introductory talk, Panayotis Antoniadis will introduce the concept of DIY networking and how it has been used the last year as a
boundary object to facilitate interdisciplinary interactions around the design of hybrid urban space. Then the roundtable will be divided
in three parts:
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Participants will be asked to provide their own description of the introduced concepts of DIY networking and hybrid space
using the vocabulary of their own research field, and some situations in which they think that the use of such technology
would make sense.
All together we will choose 2-3 case studies to work in smaller groups of people coming from different backgrounds (to the
extent that it is possible) toward providing a complete DIY networking solution for the selected case study. (The work will
include a coffee break when people will be encouraged to contact people from other groups).
We will gather again for 10min presentations from each group on their proposal, which will be followed by an open
discussion.
This round table is organized by:
A computer scientist, Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH Zurich), an urban planner, Ileana Apostol (ETH Zurich), and an artist, Katalin Hausel
(unmonastery), who invite participants to:
1) Bring their own disciplinary or personal perspective in the study of hybrid space design using DIY networking, and
2) Work in groups to design a few simple urban interventions for different imaginary or actual situations.
Global Internet Governance Policy Architecture: Case studies and interdisciplinary research challenges
This session discusses emerging issues in Internet governance policy and research. Panel members introduce three topics of
importance in relation to Internet policy and governance:
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The role of new actors in Internet governance, including civil society actors, individuals participating in campaigns, and
intergovernmental organizations;
The role of algorithmic regulation in relation to policy decision-making;
Challenges in inter-disciplinary analysis of regulation/governance including Internet measurement ethics.
Each of these topics is interrelated but also stands alone as a significant aspect of the transformation of the Internet governance and
policy space.
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The thematic discussion proceeds from the assumption that Internet governance now involves a range of processes including the
settling of disputes and creation of norms far from enforcement practices and regulatory discussions engaged in normal ‘legitimate’
legal forums. The question then arises as to how this governance might be mapped or understood – including through ‘algorithmic
regulation – and what these new actors or processes might imply for further research on Internet governance and regulation.
Participants will discuss the following topics, to be further discussed in roundtables to follow.
Alison Powell, Kave Salamatian and Meryem Marzouki will discuss the role of new actors in Internet governance. These actors are
reshaping their own identity, moving from part of government sector to a stakeholder in itself, from periphery to core of Internet
governance, crafting their roles via issue/policy entrepreneurship. The roles of intergovernmental organizations and other types of
actors (including Civil Society; Citizens; Technical Community; Technical artefacts) will be contrasted. They base their discussion on
case studies in JRA4 D4.3.
Ziga Turk and Jonathan Cave will discuss the interplay between algorithmic regulation of the Internet and algorithmic regulation of
other societal aspects enabled also by big data. This includes policy and other complexities related to Internet governance, including
modelling decision-making processes in cross-cutting governance domains. This is based on report D4.3.
Ben Zevenbergen and Chris Marsden will discuss future challenges in research on Internet governance and regulation, including
Internet measurement ethics. It identifies the challenges that emerge from both multistakeholder and algorithmic regulation solutions.
Marsden has used the inter-disciplinary insights from the Internet Science book ‘Regulating Code’ (2013, written with JRA5 leader Ian
Brown) in a variety of settings, from net neutrality to social network regulation, to state surveillance and data protection. Zevenbergen
has written about the ethics of Internet measurement, and the need for an interdisciplinary perspective that employs appropriate
regulatory and ethical impact assessment.
Read the EINS final report on regulation and governance
This round table is organized by:
Chris Marsden, Professor of Internet & Media Law, University of Sussex, United Kingdom (chair)
Alison Powell, Assistant Professor in Media and Communication, London School of economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Meryem Marzouki, Senior Researcher CNRS, France
Ziga Turk, Professor, University of Ljubjana, Slovenia
Kave Salamatian, Professor of Computer Science, University of Savoie, France
Jonathan Cave, Senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Bendert Zevenbergen, Doctor of Philosophy student and Research Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom
Internet Research Ethics: Striking a balance between conflicting interests
Are you carrying out research on Internet networks and users? This round table will discuss new and old ethical dilemmas that
researchers are facing when developing Internet research projects.
Without any doubt, Internet research is a ductile and essential aspect of both private and public research and at the core of many
business models and governmental activities. However, often invasive methodologies and research designs for the collection and
processing of data in online experiments, challenge existing ethical principles and procedures. The massive scale of research online
and the enormous market for users data and metadata demands for a new approach. Can ethics enable sound scientific research and
innovation?
The roundtable will discuss concrete examples brought by the participants, and will identify ethically and scientifically sound
approaches, methodologies and procedures to solve common problems.
The aim is to consider ethical issues from the perspective of the researchers, as well as Internet users and other data subjects. Some
of the issues that will be addressed are: consent, legitimate interest, private/public research, censorship, value sensitive design, data
protection, research ethics governance. If you have specific projects that you would like to discuss during this workshop, please send
a summary to [email protected] and [email protected] before 8 May 2015.
This round table is organized by:
Luce Jacovella, Research Coordinator at Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
(chair)
Bendert Zevenbergen, Doctor of Philosophy student and Research Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom (chair)
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